Andy Nachbar wrote:
>
> At 08:35 PM 11/6/97 -0600, you wrote:
>
> >I can think of hauling off the hollowed out log and attempting
> >to hive the swarm next Spring, if it survives the winter.
>
> If I had the chance here I would have the wood cutter cut a couple of
> round's to fashion into a top and bottom and I would secure them to the
> hollow log with the bees in it making sure that they had a entrance to come
> and go from.
>
> You would have a nice natural hive and next spring you could add a supper
> by making a gasket to fit the space left open depending on the size of the
> hollow log (brood chamber).
>
> It would be a fun project and you could end up with the best of two worlds,
> a natural hive with man made supers. If the size of the log part was great
> enough you could cut a window in it and replace it with glass and watch the
> bees do their thing as nature intended. This should be made with a cover to
> shut out the light when not viewing the bees or they will move away from
> the light.
>
> All this seems like a lot of work but from an area's that I keep bee's in
> there are few bee tree's so it sounds like fun to me.<G>
>
> ttul, the OLd Drone
 
Andy, the begining sounds like a reasonable idea for wintering. But do I
recall correctly some law/regulation requiring removable frames so a
colony can be inspected?  Or is that an Ohio reg?  If so, the notion of
log/brood with regular supering on top of the gasket would not be
permissible.
 
Does sound like fun, though.
 
Mike